Associate Professor Liz Ritchie-Tyo

Associate Professor and Associate Dean Education
e.ritchie@adfa.edu.au
+61 2 6268 8746
+61 2 6268 8786

LOCATION

Room G26, Bldg 26, SSCI, UNSW Canberra, AUSTRALIA

  • ABOUT
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Liz Ritchie obtained her Ph.D. from Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. She is an Associate Professor in the School of Science, and is the Associate Dean for Education, at UNSW Canberra (located at ADFA), Australia. A/Prof. Ritchie’s broad research interests are tropical cyclones, tropical meteorology, extreme weather and climate impacts on societies.

For Future Research Students:

*** PhD scholarship top-up opportunity *** A project is available with CSIRO examining the microphysical structure of tropical convection using new microsat high spatial and spectral resolution observations in tropical cyclones and organised (Hector) thunderstorms. If interested, contact me at e.ritchie@adfa.edu.au.

Ph.D. scholarships of $35,000 (AUD) are available for high-achieving students (H1/High Distinction in their UG program and/or have completed a Masters by Research) in tropical cyclones, climate, societal impacts, remote sensing, and meteorological modelling under A/Prof Ritchie's supervision. if you are interested contact me at e.ritchie@adfa.edu.au.

Research: Physical understanding, estimation, and prediction of tropical cyclogenesis, tropical cyclone structure and intensity change, the extratropical transition of tropical cyclones and their downstream impacts, and tropical cyclone landfall impacts on natural environments and societies. Climate and environmental impacts on extreme weather behaviour. Weather Phenomena. Tropical cyclone storm surge and sedimentation from fresh-water inundation.

Applied Research Areas: Remote sensing detection, estimation, and prediction of tropical cyclones and other extreme weather. 

Professional Engagement: A/Prof. Ritchie is an editor of Weather and Forecasting and former editor of the Monthly Weather Review. She is a member of the World Meteorological Organization's (WMO) Working Group on Tropical Cyclones and the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society's expert group on weather and weather prediction, has served on numerous NASA panels including Chair of the Senior Review, is a former Councillor of the American Meteorological Society, served on the U.S. Joint Hurricane Testbed Steering Committee, and has served in a number of leadership roles for the WMO International Workshop on Tropical Cyclones.

Publications: A/Prof. Ritchie has 50 peer-reviewed journal papers and book chapters, and 140+ conference papers. For publication details see the link in the red box on the right of the webpage.

Funding: A/Prof. Ritchie has successfully obtained significant external funding for her research that includes the US Office of Naval Research, National Science Foundation, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the Australian Bureau of Meteorology.

Journal articles

Xiao Y; Wang XH; Ritchie EA; Rizwi F; Qiao L, 2019, 'The development and evolution of the Burdekin River estuary freshwater plume during Cyclone Debbie (2017)', Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, vol. 224, pp. 187 - 196, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2019.04.037

Deng D; Ritchie EA, 2019, 'An Unusual Extreme Rainfall Event in Canberra Australia on February 2018', Journal of Geophysical Research, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2019jd030420

Keller JH; Grams CM; Riemer M; Archambault HM; Bosart L; Doyle JD; Evans JL; Galarneau TJ; Griffin K; Harr PA; Kitabatake N; McTaggart-Cowan R; Pantillon F; Quinting JF; Reynolds CA; Ritchie EA; Torn RD; Zhang F, 2019, 'The extratropical transition of tropical cyclones. Part II: Interaction with the midlatitude flow, downstream impacts, and implications for predictability', Monthly Weather Review, vol. 147, pp. 1077 - 1106, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-17-0329.1

Deng D; Ritchie EA, 2018, 'A Metric for Rainfall Asymmetry in Recurving Tropical Cyclones', Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 45, pp. 6741 - 6749, http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2018GL078273

Yang G; Wang XH; Ritchie EA; Qiao L; Li G; Cheng Z, 2018, 'Using 250-M surface reflectance MODIS Aqua/Terra product to estimate turbidity in a macro-tidal harbour: Darwin Harbour, Australia', Remote Sensing, vol. 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs10070997

Deng D; Ritchie EA, 2018, 'Rainfall characteristics of recurving tropical cyclones over the Western North Pacific', Journal of Climate, vol. 31, pp. 575 - 592, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-17-0415.1

Evans C; Wood KM; Aberson SD; Archambault HM; Milrad SM; Bosart LF; Corbosiero KL; Davis CA; Pinto JRD; Doyle J; Fogarty C; Galarneau TJ; Grams CM; Griffin KS; Gyakum J; Hart RE; Kitabatake N; Lentink HS; Mctaggart-Cowan R; Perrie W; Quinting JFD; Reynolds CA; Riemer M; Ritchie EA; Sun Y; Zhang F, 2017, 'The extratropical transition of tropical cyclones. Part I: Cyclone evolution and direct impacts', Monthly Weather Review, vol. 145, pp. 4317 - 4344, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-17-0027.1

Stovern DR; Ritchie EA, 2016, 'Simulated sensitivity of tropical cyclone size and structure to the atmospheric temperature profile', Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, vol. 73, pp. 4553 - 4571, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-15-0186.1

Dolling K; Ritchie EA; Tyo JS, 2016, 'The use of the deviation angle variance technique on geostationary satellite imagery to estimate tropical cyclone size parameters', Weather and Forecasting, vol. 31, pp. 1625 - 1642, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/WAF-D-16-0056.1

Wood KM; Ritchie EA, 2015, 'A definition for rapid weakening of North Atlantic and eastern North Pacific tropical cyclones', Geophysical Research Letters, vol. 42, pp. 10091 - 10097, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2015GL066697

Wood KM; Rodríguez-herrera OG; Ritchie EA; Piñeros MF; Hernández IA; Tyo JS, 2015, 'Tropical cyclogenesis detection in the north pacific using the deviation angle variance technique', Weather and Forecasting, vol. 30, pp. 1663 - 1672, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/WAF-D-14-00113.1

Davis K; Zeng X; Ritchie EA, 2015, 'A new statistical model for predicting seasonal north Atlantic Hurricane activity', Weather and Forecasting, vol. 30, pp. 730 - 741, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/WAF-D-14-00156.1

Seastrand S; Serra Y; Castro C; Ritchie E, 2015, 'The dominant synoptic-scale modes of North American monsoon precipitation', International Journal of Climatology, vol. 35, pp. 2019 - 2032, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/joc.4104

Rodríguez-Herrera OG; Wood KM; Dolling KP; Black WT; Ritchie EA; Tyo JS, 2015, 'Automatic tracking of pregenesis tropical disturbances within the deviation angle variance system', IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, vol. 12, pp. 254 - 258, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/LGRS.2014.2334561

Ritchie EA; Wood KM; Rodríguez-Herrera OG; Piñeros MF; Scott Tyo J, 2014, 'Satellite-derived tropical cyclone intensity in the north pacific ocean using the deviation-angle variance technique', Weather and Forecasting, vol. 29, pp. 505 - 516, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/WAF-D-13-00133.1

Seastrand S; Serra Y; Castro C; Ritchie E, 2014, 'The dominant synoptic-scale modes of North American monsoon precipitation', International Journal of Climatology, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/joc.4104

Wood KM; Ritchie EA, 2014, 'A 40-year climatology of extratropical transition in the Eastern North Pacific', Journal of Climate, vol. 27, pp. 5999 - 6015, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00645.1

Gutzler DS; Wood KM; Ritchie EA; Douglas AV; Lewis MD, 2013, 'Interannual variability of tropical cyclone activity along the Pacific coast of North America', Atmosfera, vol. 26, pp. 149 - 162, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0187-6236(13)71069-5

Wood KM; Ritchie EA, 2013, 'An updated climatology of tropical cyclone impacts on the southwestern United States', Monthly Weather Review, vol. 141, pp. 4322 - 4336, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-13-00078.1

Wood KM; Ritchie EA, 2012, 'The unusual behavior and precipitation pattern associated with tropical storm ignacio (1997)', Monthly Weather Review, vol. 140, pp. 3347 - 3360, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-11-00284.1

Ritchie EA; Valliere-Kelley G; Piñeros MF; Tyo JS, 2012, 'Tropical cyclone intensity estimation in the North Atlantic basin using an improved deviation angle variance technique', Weather and Forecasting, vol. 27, pp. 1264 - 1277, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/WAF-D-11-00156.1

Ritchie EA; Wood KM; Gutzler DS; White SR, 2011, 'The influence of eastern Pacific tropical cyclone remnants on the southwestern United States', Monthly Weather Review, vol. 139, pp. 192 - 210, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2010MWR3389.1

Felker SR; Lacasse B; Tyo JS; Ritchie EA, 2011, 'Forecasting post-extratropical transition outcomes for tropical cyclones using support vector machine classifiers', Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, vol. 28, pp. 709 - 719, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2010JTECHA1449.1

Piñeros MF; Ritchie EA; Tyo JS, 2011, 'Estimating tropical cyclone intensity from infrared image data', Weather and Forecasting, vol. 26, pp. 690 - 698, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/WAF-D-10-05062.1

Piñeros MF; Ritchie EA; Tyo JS, 2010, 'Detecting tropical cyclone genesis from remotely sensed infrared image data', IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, vol. 7, pp. 826 - 830, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/LGRS.2010.2048694

Kofron DE; Ritchie EA; Tyo JS, 2010, 'Determination of a consistent time for the extratropical transition of tropical cyclones. Part I: Examination of existing methods for finding "ET Time"', Monthly Weather Review, vol. 138, pp. 4328 - 4343, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2010MWR3180.1

Kofron DE; Ritchie EA; Tyo JS, 2010, 'Determination of a consistent time for the extratropical transition of tropical cyclones. Part II: Potential vorticity metrics', Monthly Weather Review, vol. 138, pp. 4344 - 4361, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2010MWR3181.1

Leary LA; Ritchie EA, 2009, 'Lightning flash rates as an indicator of tropical cyclone genesis in the Eastern North Pacific', Monthly Weather Review, vol. 137, pp. 3456 - 3470, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2009MWR2822.1

Gutzler DS; Long LN; Schemm J; Baidya Roy S; Bosilovich M; Collier JC; Kanamitsu M; Kelly P; Lawrence D; Lee MI; Lobato Sánchez R; Mapes B; Mo K; Nunes A; Ritchie EA; Roads J; Schubert S; Wei H; Zhang GJ, 2009, 'Simulations of the 2004 North American monsoon: NAMAP2', Journal of Climate, vol. 22, pp. 6716 - 6740, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2009JCLI3138.1

Pineros MF; Ritchie EA; Tyo JS, 2008, 'Objective measures of tropical cyclone structure and intensity change from remotely sensed infrared image data', IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 46, pp. 3574 - 3580, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2008.2000819

Ritchie EA; Elsberry RL, 2007, 'Simulations of the extratropical transition of tropical cyclones: Phasing between the upper-level trough and tropical cyclones', Monthly Weather Review, vol. 135, pp. 862 - 876, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/MWR3303.1

Ritchie EA; Frank WM, 2007, 'Interactions between simulated tropical cyclones and an environment with a variable coriolis parameter', Monthly Weather Review, vol. 135, pp. 1889 - 1905, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/MWR3359.1

Demirci O; Tyo JS; Ritchie EA, 2007, 'Spatial and spatiotemporal projection pursuit techniques to predict the extratropical transition of tropical cyclones', IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 45, pp. 418 - 425, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2006.882251

Heymsfield GM; Halverson J; Ritchie E; Simpson J; Molinari J; Tian L, 2006, 'Structure of highly sheared Tropical Storm Chantal during CAMEX-4', Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, vol. 63, pp. 268 - 287, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JAS3602.1

Halverson JB; Simpson J; Heymsfield G; Pierce H; Hock T; Ritchie L, 2006, 'Warm core structure of Hurricane Erin diagnosed from high altitude dropsondes during CAMEX-4', Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, vol. 63, pp. 309 - 324, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JAS3596.1

Gutzler DS; Kim HK; Higgins RW; Juang HMH; Kanamitsu M; Mitchell K; Mo K; Pegion P; Ritchie E; Schemm JK; Schubert S; Song Y; Yang R, 2005, 'The North American Monsoon Model Assessment Project: Integrating numerical modeling into a field-based process study', Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, vol. 86, pp. 1423 - 1429, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-86-10-1423

Ritchie EA; Elsberry RL, 2003, 'Simulations of the extratropical transition of tropical cyclones: Contributions by the midlatitude upper-level trough to reintensification', Monthly Weather Review, vol. 131, pp. 2112 - 2128, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/1520-0493(2003)131<2112:SOTETO>2.0.CO;2

Frank WM; Ritchie EA, 2001, 'Effects of vertical wind shear on the intensity and structure of numerically simulated hurricanes', Monthly Weather Review, vol. 129, pp. 2249 - 2269, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/1520-0493(2001)129<2249:EOVWSO>2.0.CO;2

Hirschberg PA; Shafran PC; Elsberry RL; Ritchie EA, 2001, 'An observing system experiment with the West Coast picket fence', Monthly Weather Review, vol. 129, pp. 2585 - 2599, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/1520-0493(2001)129<2585:AOSEWT>2.0.CO;2

Ritchie EA; Elsberry RL, 2001, 'Simulations of the transformation stage of the extratropical transition of tropical cyclones', Monthly Weather Review, vol. 129, pp. 1462 - 1480, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/1520-0493(2001)129<1462:SOTTSO>2.0.CO;2

Ritchie EA; Elsberry RL, 2000, 'Simulated impacts of a mesoscale convective system on the track of typhoon Robyn during TCM-93', Monthly Weather Review, vol. 128, pp. 2232 - 2251, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/1520-0493(2000)128<2232:SIOAMC<2.0.CO;2

Frank WM; Ritchie EA, 1999, 'Effects of environmental flow upon tropical cyclone structure', Monthly Weather Review, vol. 127, pp. 2044 - 2061, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/1520-0493(1999)127<2044:EOEFUT>2.0.CO;2

Ritchie EA; Holland GJ, 1999, 'Large-scale patterns associated with tropical cyclogenesis in the western Pacific', Monthly Weather Review, vol. 127, pp. 2027 - 2043, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/1520-0493(1999)127<2027:LSPAWT>2.0.CO;2

Ritchie EA; Holland GJ, 1997, 'Scale interactions during the formation of typhoon irving', Monthly Weather Review, vol. 125, pp. 1377 - 1396, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/1520-0493(1997)125<1377:SIDTFO>2.0.CO;2

Simpson J; Ritchie E; Holland GJ; Halverson J; Stewart S, 1997, 'Mesoscale interactions in tropical cyclone genesis', Monthly Weather Review, vol. 125, pp. 2643 - 2661, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/1520-0493(1997)125<2643:MIITCG>2.0.CO;2

Ritchie EA; Holland GJ, 1993, 'On the interaction of tropical‐cyclone‐scale vortices. II: Discrete vortex patches', Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, vol. 119, pp. 1363 - 1379, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/qj.49711951407

HOLLAND GJ; LESLIE LM; RITCHIE EA; DIETACHMAYER GS; POWERS PE; KLINK M, 1991, 'AN INTERACTIVE ANALYSIS AND FORECAST SYSTEM FOR TROPICAL CYCLONE MOTION', WEATHER AND FORECASTING, vol. 6, pp. 415 - 424, http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/1520-0434(1991)006<0415:AIAAFS>2.0.CO;2

Conference Papers

Gu S; Yao L; Tunc C; Akoglu A; Hariri S; Ritchie E, 2016, 'An Autonomic Workflow Performance Manager for Weather Research and Forecast Workflows', in Proceedings - 2016 International Conference on Cloud and Autonomic Computing, ICCAC 2016: Co-located with the 10th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems, SASO 2016, pp. 111 - 114, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICCAC.2016.23

Wood KM; Ritchie EA, 2015, 'Distribution and variability of CAPE over the tropical oceans.', in The AMS 27th Conference on Climate Variability and Change, The AMS 27th Conference on Climate Variability and Change, Phoenix, AZ, presented at The AMS 27th Conference on Climate Variability and Change, Phoenix, AZ, 05 January 2015 - 08 January 2015

Strickler WR; Ritchie EA; Wood KM, 2015, 'Forecast accuracy associated with high impact weather events over the western United States downstream of extratropically transitioning tropical cyclones', in The American meteorological Society 14th Annual Student Conference, The American meteorological Society 14th Annual Student Conference, Phoenix, AZ, presented at The American meteorological Society 14th Annual Student Conference, Phoenix, AZ, 03 January 2015 - 04 January 2015

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